Grab a Kleenex and Take the GQFault in Our Stars Challenge

How confident are the makers of The Fault in Our Stars—a YA-novel adaptation about cancer-stricken teens in love, starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort—that it'll make you bawl your eyes out? Well, before preview screenings, they were handing out Kleenex. And lo and behold, we needed them. All of them. It got so blubbery up in there that we decided to turn this (actually quite good) movie into a GQ challenge: How long could each of us—a group that included the movie's co-star Nat Wolff, who gamely played along—hold out before the dam burst?

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Emma Schwartz
PHOTO ASSISTANT, GQTime of first teardrop: 0:00What did it: The trailer. Emma hasn't even seen the goddamn movie yet. She cried watching the trailer, folks.Why: "Because cancer."

Jen OrtizEDITORIAL ASSISTANT, GQTime of first teardrop: 0:43What did it: Flashback to Hazel (Woodley) in hospital bed; her mom wailing, "I'm not gonna be a mother anymore!"Why: "It made me want to hug my mom."

Freddie CampionASSOCIATE EDITOR, GQTime of first teardrop: 1:15What did it: Hazel and Gus (Elgort) share first kiss in Anne Frank's house.Why: "The combination of teens with cancer and the Holocaust, and because I'm not a monster."

Nat WolffACTOR, CO-STAR, 'THE FAULT IN OUR STARS'Time of first teardrop: 1:40What did it: Hazel's mom tells her she'll "always be your mother."Why: "Because I'm so close to it, I lasted a little longer. Then it all went downhill. I was a mess."

Zach BaronSTAFF WRITER, GQTime of first teardrop: 1:43What did it: When Gus "attends" his own funeral.Why: "Total emotional carnage—like having your head chopped off by a sword made of tears."

Mark ByrneASSOCIATE EDITOR, GQTime of first teardrop: NEVER. BOOM.
"It was close at times, but I made it."Why not: "The Anne Frank House? Are you kidding me?"